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25/12/2024

Happy Christmas all
Currently in Lille with Jeremy and family. Still living in Melle, staying with friends. No luck on the house-hunting yet. Hopefully things will kick off in the new year.
Best present this year? The giant spider I gifted to Jeremy's eldest (5 years old)
Terrified her and her brother (1) for some reason. I can't see it... 🤣

29/03/2024

Hello everybody
This is a sad post.
Violette has passed away.
We drove up to Paris last Friday, 22 March for a family reunion. Once we got there Violette was feeling very poorly. Called the hospital and an ambulance arrived at the hotel. There then followed 4 days of intensive care and an operation. The problem was an ischemic bowel. The operation revealed the damage to be too great and inoperable. She died on Wednesday 27th at 16h. I was with our two kids Jeremy and Lisa. They were a great help. I'm now back home with Lisa and the funeral is on Tuesday week
I wanted to say how much she had enjoyed having you guys down over the past 20 years, how much she loved the aperitifs in the orchard and what a great wife, partner in everything and best friend she has been to me for the past 56 years.
I feel totally lost.
I know you all fell under her spell and it was mutual. She loved you guys/gals
I can't see me doing any more weekends, I've no idea how I could without her
Love you all
Tony & Violette 29 March 2024

05/01/2024

Inspired by my witty albeit succinct prose, Violette wishes to take finger to keyboard.
And here she is!

"Hello Biker friends! This is Violette.
Beginning of A New Year and I hope it keeps you in good health and brings you strength and lots of smiles. I can imagine you all sitting in our orchard again, a glass of Rosé in your hand... Mmm...! That is how I think of you all.
We're still here in our house. Not moving, although strings of estate agents assure us that it'll happen any day now!
I miss you all. Take good care of yourselves.
Love, Violette"

Hugs all round to Flashistas everywhere!

Hello everybody! Well, after a year of intensive and enthusiastic visits (4 to date) I'm pleased to report that the chât...
05/01/2024

Hello everybody! Well, after a year of intensive and enthusiastic visits (4 to date) I'm pleased to report that the château remains unsold and that I'm currently sitting by a raging log fire (gas and electric far too expensive) sipping a rather pleasant single malt.
We've been very busy what with neutering the cat and supplementing the stocks of single malt and I have been, once again, remiss in keeping you up to date with developments.
Our one and only weekend in 2023 was in September and was a phenomenal success, with me winning the traditional race back to Melle on the last day by a good hour.
All boxes were ticked: Pinky Plonky, orchard, Road of Doom, Cognac roundabout, Twin Bends of Beelzebub, Devil's Drop. We even managed a stretch of dual carriageway on Day 1. Such larks!
I'm mulling over what we might do this year. Obviously the move is still massively on the cards which will have the effect of eating up a large chunk of the year, but if the market continues flat then I might plan a weekend or two in the Spring. I'll let you have as much prior warning as possible.
Thanks to those of you who made it down in September. That's : Dave n Lyn, Dee & Kimberley, Rob & Ros, James & Kathy, Glen Keith and Russell and Karen. Here's a few pics of the weekend.
Oh! And I mustn't forget the arrival of wee Jamie, born on the 6th October to proud (but exhausted) parents Laureline and Jeremy
😊😊😊
Happy New Year to you all. Hope to see you all again soon (just not aii at the same time)
Hugs all round!

Coucou 🔵 C'est officiel. Signé à 12h53. C'est même passé à la télé.Le mien est vraiment devenu bleu. N'oubliez pas que d...
19/11/2023

Coucou 🔵 C'est officiel. Signé à 12h53. C'est même passé à la télé.
Le mien est vraiment devenu bleu. N'oubliez pas que demain commence la nouvelle règle Facebook (alias... nouveau nom, META) où ils peuvent utiliser vos photos. N'oubliez pas la date limite c'est aujourd'hui !!! Je n'autorise pas Facebook ni aucune entité associée à Facebook à utiliser mes photos, informations, messages ou publications, passés et futurs.
Avec cette déclaration, j'avise Facebook qu'il est strictement interdit de divulguer, copier, distribuer ou prendre toute autre mesure contre moi sur la base de ce profil et/ou de son contenu. La violation de la vie privée peut être punie par la loi.
REMARQUE : Facebook est désormais une entité publique. Tous les membres doivent publier une note comme celle-ci.
Si vous préférez, vous pouvez copier et coller cette version. Si vous ne publiez pas une déclaration au moins une fois, cela autorisera tacitement l'utilisation de vos photos, ainsi que les informations contenues dans les mises à jour de profil et de statut.
NE PARTAGER PAS. Copier et coller.
Voici comment procéder :
Maintenez votre doigt enfoncé n'importe où dans ce message et "copier" apparaîtra. Cliquez sur "copier". Ensuite, allez sur votre page, créez un nouveau message et placez votre doigt n'importe où dans le champ vide. "Coller" apparaîtra et cliquez sur Coller.
Cela contournera le système….
Qui ne fait rien conscent !

28/07/2023

Hello all. Been a strange year so far. House went on the market in November and we've had TWO (count 'em) visits which amounted to naught. Just changed estate agents, so that's all right then.
Very odd not having you lot down here to share the Spring-fired weeks of craziness in the garden where the upward thrust of the agapanthus meets the plaintive beeping of the midwife toads during their summer-long search for love.
Been out on the bikes with some local mates, to keep my hand and eye in. Got summoned to the local cop-shop to put the finishing touches to their "findings" following my (acrobatic) off last June. They were most impressed by my not remembering a thing about it and my ongoing narcolepsy.
Weekends
There were some poor souls who were unable to attend over the last two years and as we haven't moved yet I've put on one weekend in September to accommodate them. When combined with those who've been annoying me for the past 8 months with offers of a place in the House of Lords and/or sundry emoluments, the slots were filled in 24 hours. Sorry! There will be other opportunities
That's us pretty much up to date.
More news as it's occurrin'
Pip Pip, Dear Peeps

26/03/2023

Thought you might like to know that the violence in France this weekend in protest at the building of a massive reservoir fir irrigation use, took place just outside the village of Sainte Soline. This is where we stop for coffee on a Sunday when returning from Cognac. It's the little bar , run by volunteers, at the fishing lake.
The violence was incredible and down to a thousand of so hard-core rioters known as "black blocks". They infiltrate genuine protests G as the ones we've seen in Paris and elsewhere and they sin is to cause a much destruction of property and injury to the police as they can. At Ste Soline they were hiding in a crowd of between 6 to 10,000 protesters. The gendarmes être expecting trouble and there were 3000 riot police on site.
Coincidentally the mayor of Melle declared the town open to the demonstrators and supplied camping sites, parking, field kitchens, an infirmary and a rock concert. There were debates on the ecological impact of the reservoirs and round table discussions on possible crop evolution due to climate change.
Many of the protesters left Saturday evening, totally disgusted by the violence
There was no trouble in Melle itself

02/02/2023

It's Groundhog Day, again

13/12/2022

Yes, yes, I know, I know...
But here I am now! So sit back, this might be a long one.
First off all a big up to those who attended the last weekend of the year back in... September. It was a real blast except for the fact that, following my off in June, I lost pretty much the use of my right arm. No strength at all, which explains why I dropped the GS when it was parked at the restaurant in Cognac 🙄, and when pulling away I was either at tick-over or 4K rpm. Made for some interesting take-offs. Good news is that it's all back to normal now,
The main news, that some of you are already aware of, is that we've put the house on the market. We've been here for 22 great years and have decided it's time to move on, find somewhere smaller and less expensive to run. It's a wrench and downsizing is a nightmare! Where to put all our stuff? We haven't decided where we're moving to yet but will be looking for a place with room for at least 8 of you. So watch this space and we'll update it as we go along. We're hoping to be able to move in the first half of 2023. We'll let you know.
There's lots more to be said about all of you, the weekends, the evenings and the rideouts, but I'll keep that under wraps until the launch of My Book...,😂😂 it might still happen!
Just let me say thanks to all of you for the past 20 (!) years of pleasure and mayhem, we've loved every one of them.
I'll be writing more in the New Year to keep you up to speed with the move.
From the two of us down here, to all of you up there, have a great Christmas and don't hesitate to drop us a line if you want a recipe or some advice on cornering techniques 😂
All the best
Tony & Violette

Thursday 23rd September 2022 - 18h15Miss you guys!
22/09/2022

Thursday 23rd September 2022 - 18h15

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10/09/2022

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